A dollar’s worth of destiny

Decided to try my hand at vampire romance for a writing competition (as you do). I suspect one of the many reasons I didn't win was that I found it hard to take it too seriously. At least Worthing Flash (bless their hearts) got the joke. https://worthingflash.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-dollars-worth-of-destiny.html

Coming to terms with syllogism

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'term'. The term ‘syllogism’ in itself contains three terms (the major premise, the minor premise, and the conclusion); the most famous example is ‘All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal’ but here’s a few more I’ve …

Means and ends

This 99 word piece was written for the Carrot Ranch weekly challenge, with the prompt of 'never-ending'. When she said to me our relationship was never-ending, my first thought was she’s saying ‘We’ll be together until death and beyond'. Later we had an argument over something I considered trivial and I started to wonder if …

Wild West Romance

Back in December 2020, Charli Mills, Queen of the Keewenaw region in Michigan and Head Wrangler at the Carrot Ranch, offered her Rough Writers a chance to compete in her TUFF (The Ultimate Flash Fiction) challenge. The contest challenged writers to prepare an original 99-word draft based on a western theme. Then writers had to …

Delicious irony

This is the micro fiction version of an earlier story of mine, mined for the 99 word Carrot Ranch weekly challenge with the prompt of 'disappearance'. When you humans brought us monstera deliciosa inside, you had to feed us copious amounts of blood and bone fertiliser to keep us green. Slowly that altered our genetic …

Shock and denial

A piece of my flash fiction published today by Word City Lit. https://wordcitylit.ca/2022/03/18/shock-and-denial-fiction-by-doug-jacquier/

The boiling frog analogy

Felix Randall O’Gorman (universally known as Frog) had gone way past wondering about whether he was worrying about the right things. He was now in the vortex of worrying about whether he was worrying about enough things. Every day the list grew exponentially as he read news sites and studied social media. War, disease, environmental …

Drained

This piece of my micro fiction has just been published on 101 Words. https://101words.org/

Wear and tear

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'wear'. I've actually had a few pieces accepted this week but I decided not to waste a good whinge. 🙂 All these rejections are starting to wear me down (if they were the old paper rejection slips I’d have enough to …

A juicy scandal

This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of 'juice'. When the Feds descended on the Give-Me-The-Juice Bar, customers scrambled for the exits and the owners tried to destroy the evidence down the sinks and toilet bowls, but to no avail; the jigger was up. Damning evidence presented to the …